Automated Abandoned Cart Recovery for Shopify with Gmail & Google Sheets
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Automatically recover lost sales with this powerful n8n workflow. It detects abandoned carts on Shopify, sends personalized recovery emails via Gmail, and meticulously logs all activity to Google Sheets for performance tracking.
About This Workflow
This robust n8n workflow empowers e-commerce businesses to automatically tackle abandoned carts and boost conversion rates. It starts with a Shopify trigger, capturing vital cart information as soon as a potential sale is left incomplete. The workflow intelligently checks if the customer has already completed their purchase elsewhere, preventing redundant outreach. If the cart remains abandoned, it fetches detailed cart contents and dispatches a compelling recovery email using Gmail, prompting customers to complete their order. All recovery efforts and their outcomes are meticulously logged into Google Sheets for performance tracking and analysis, ensuring you never miss an opportunity to convert. You can also easily extend this workflow with SMS reminders or other follow-ups.
Key Features
- Shopify Integration: Automatically triggers on abandoned checkout events, directly connecting to your store data.
- Smart Conditional Logic: Prevents sending recovery emails to customers who have already completed their purchase, ensuring a smooth customer experience.
- Personalized Email Outreach: Sends tailored abandoned cart emails via Gmail, complete with dynamic cart details to entice customers back.
- Activity Logging & Analytics: Records all abandoned cart events and recovery efforts into Google Sheets for easy tracking, reporting, and performance analysis.
- Extensible Follow-ups: Designed for easy expansion, allowing you to seamlessly integrate SMS reminders (e.g., via Twilio) or multi-stage email sequences.
How To Use
- Set up Shopify Trigger: Configure the 'Shopify Trigger' node to listen for specific abandoned checkout events from your Shopify store. Ensure you have the necessary Shopify API credentials linked.
- Extract Key Values: Customize the 'Extract Key Values' (Set) node to parse and format essential information like customer email, cart URL, and product details from the Shopify payload.
- Configure HTTP Requests: Set up both the 'GET Checkout Status' and 'Fetch Cart' (HTTP Request) nodes. These will call back to Shopify's API to verify the current order status and retrieve detailed cart contents for the recovery email.
- Define Conditional Logic: Adjust the 'Completed Checkout?' (If) node to correctly evaluate if a checkout has been finalized using the data retrieved from the 'GET Checkout Status' node. This determines whether the recovery process continues.
- Connect Gmail: Configure the 'Send Email (Gmail)' node with your Gmail account credentials. Design your abandoned cart recovery email template, utilizing dynamic data from previous nodes to personalize the message.
- Integrate Google Sheets: Set up the 'Log to Google Sheet' node to append new rows with details of each abandoned cart event and recovery email sent, using your Google Sheet credentials for tracking.
- (Optional) Enable Follow-ups: To add advanced follow-up sequences (like SMS reminders), enable and configure the 'Wait 24 Hours' and 'Send SMS (Twilio)' nodes, setting up your Twilio credentials and desired message content.
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Workflow JSON
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"id": "6fc8c023-a827-4d65-8809-196f4eafe343",
"name": "Automated Abandoned Cart Recovery for Shopify with Gmail & Google Sheets",
"nodes": 22,
"category": "Marketing",
"status": "active",
"version": "1.0.0"
}Note: This is a sample preview. The full workflow JSON contains node configurations, credentials placeholders, and execution logic.
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